Ray brings more than 20 years of experience leading finance teams in global companies with significant operating scale and complexity. Before joining GoDaddy in 2016, Ray was Chief Financial Officer of First Data, a global leader in commerce-enabling technology and solutions. He played a catalyst role influencing the direction of company with respect to product pricing, wholesale channel engagement, the card issuing business and the need for transformational change in the small merchant business segment. Ray was also pivotal in the strengthening of the company’s balance sheet, refinancing nearly $24 billion in debt. Prior to First Data, he served in senior financial leadership roles at Delta Air Lines and AT&T. Ray began his professional career at PwC in Atlanta.
Hostwinds may be the PCMag Editors' Choice for VPS hosting, but that doesn't mean that GoDaddy doesn't have quality virtual private server packages. GoDaddy's VPS plans (starting at $29.99 per month) offer Linux- or Windows-based servers as well as unlimited domains, monthly data transfers, and email. The specs top out at 8GB of RAM, 240GB of storage, and a free SSL for one year. That's good stuff.
If the registry for your domain name extension allows it, GoDaddy hold your expired domain name for a few days waiting for you to renew it. For many domain name extensions (such as .com, .net, and .org) there is a grace period allowing you to renew the domain name after expiration without penalty. After the grace period for these extensions, you must pay a redemption fee plus the cost of regular renewal if you want to keep the domain name.
When I call for technical support, I get the queasy feeling the customer and GoDaddy are using two different responsibility matrices. I don't get that feeling until I call tech support. The way I understand the relationship is: I put in the data. I pay GoDaddy to host that data, so I don't have to worry about that part. My job is: data and money. GoDaddy's job is: everything else. I am not sure if it is possible to corrupt GoDaddy's software or servers with my "managed", it seems locked down in every other way, WordPress. It seems when I call, I understand my responsibilities, but GoDaddy is iffy/waffling all the way back towards "Go-who? Servers? What servers?" It seems difficult to get GoDaddy technical support to accept responsibility except for 1) data, and 2) money, which I clearly have indicated are mine.
In 2009, GoDaddy purchased spots for two different commercials featuring GoDaddy Girl and IndyCar Series driver Danica Patrick for Super Bowl XLIII. In "Shower", Danica takes a shower with Simona Fusco Stratten as three college students control the women's maneuvers from a computer. "Baseball" is a spoof of the steroids scandal.[61] While "Shower" won GoDaddy's online vote, "Baseball" was the most popular of the Super Bowl. Both helped increase domain registrations 110 percent above 2008 post Super Bowl levels.[62][63] GoDaddy posted Internet-only versions of its commercials during the game, which were extended versions containing more risque content.[64] "Baseball" was the most watched Super Bowl commercial according to TiVo, Inc.[65] According to comScore, GoDaddy ranked first in advertiser Web site follow-through.[66] Rob Goulding, head of business-to-business markets for Google, offered an in-depth analysis of Super Bowl spots that aired during Sunday's championship game. He said the most successful were multichannel-oriented, driving viewers to Web sites and "focusing on conversion as never before". GoDaddy experienced significant Web traffic and a strong "hangover" effect of viewer interest in the days that followed due to a provocative "teaser" advertisement pointing to the Web, Goulding said.[67]
We had a premium security feature expire on a site, but prior to it expiring, the name of it actually changed. Let me back up just a moment. Premium security isn't something GoDaddy actually handles. They third party it out, used to be SiteLock, but now they run their premium support clients through Securi. We weren't informed of the change, so when the old premium planned expired, it wasn't renewed b/c someone in the office didn't recognize the Securi name on the renewal. No big deal. Security expires, and while the site isn't a little less secure, everything still should be fine, right? I began having a variety of issues on the live version of the site. After three different calls about a variety of connected issues, someone over there finally put things together and found what the issue was - left security software that was directing my site traffic to a dead firewall. Took a fourth support ticket and another week for it be removed and resolved.
Rachel Cho of @RachelChoFloral chats with us at @WeWork Times Square in this episode of School of Hustle. Watch the full video now on Facebook to see how a love for business grew into a realized passion for flowers. https://www.facebook.com/GoDaddy/videos/2124745347572102/?__xts__[0]=68.ARB0TNIO0JEONRtp99UqffMT9zu2QVARdAN2zSh8XHbTbHUJxX6zoUrBahYImnQXxYGsTXbV_r3HWfhUEX44WU40XL3cXcfYJDHDkVAKmOt7z_8ptE1JAwsvKM-hk_79w900x5CPdsnPe63AWGjyJU7wdHb6ZsapPrk2cnvvzVAOl6PFJ67P7b0TN0itIYCu3FVYE33fr5w1Vnl7c8DTIAKkACk7a95S4hYGswdDoBiFfb6wPvB9mkrSZkcqteyuHfTjddo2e0yFnmrZ-5M8sJBYvC7UIxcVyjQY61hEcT4x5KH6IISFzHBRouWGC81Nax3ajMzDHTXA4RKEMty4FQoOWg&__tn__=-R …pic.twitter.com/cty71b6Vy3
GoDaddy has had a bit of a tumultuous history, with controversial ad campaigns and questionable behavior on the part of former CEO Bob Parsons. Despite all that, GoDaddy became the largest ICANN-accredited registrar in 2005, continues to register the most domains in the business, and offers many more products and services beyond just domain registration such as hosting and website builders.
